Ripped's debut album 'Through My Eyes' was an excellent technical retro thrash with Megadeth as the prime target for worship. The album also featured spacey, psychedelic spices taken straight from the Voivod and Equinox textbooks. However, their EP 'Easter Island' showed the band moving towards a more elaborate, not very comprehensive direction, also incorporating more brutal death metal-ish elements into their ambitious thrashy palette. The album 'Through My Eyes' shocked the handful of fans the guys had accumulated with its overtly aggressive, harsh, plain chaotic again delivery with most of the tracks having this rushed, unfinished feel as though the band hadn’t had the time to complete the recordings. Overall, the album was not very accessible, overtly chaotic at times, and had a tangible feeling of air-headedness, nonchalance as if the guys never took themselves very seriously.
# Thrash Metal
Desaster - блэк/трэш группа из Германии, образованная в 1988 году. Влияние на музыку оказали такие группы, как Black Sabbath, Venom, Celtic Frost, Bathory, Slayer, Sarcófago и Destruction. Группа выпустила несколько альбомов и сплит-альбомов, в которых принимали участие приглашенные музыканты. В 1999 году группа отметила свое 10-летие выпуском двойного LP "Ten Years Of Total Desaster".